The Business of Sharing

Making It in the New Sharing Economy
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-37617-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Providing a colorful insight into the people at the forefront of the emergent Sharing Economy, a movement predicted to already be worth around $26B a year, this book gives vital advice to anyone thinking of starting or investing in a collaborative consumption business. The first of its kind, written by an author on the forefront of this new trend.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephany, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Selbstständige & Freiberufler
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: The Billion Dollar Moustache 1. Architects: Building on New Ground 2. We the People: Selfish Sharers 3. Founders: Visionaries and Doers 4. Investors: All Bets are On (All $3 Billion Of Them) 5. Corporates: Angry, Afraid - and In 6. Governments: Fits and Starts Epilogue: A Shared Future?

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Stephany is the CEO of JustPark (formerly ParkatmyHouse), one of Europe's most renowned sharing economy businesses. Backed by the venture capital arm of BMW and Index Ventures, JustPark is the world's largest website for shared parking with over a million customers. Educated at Oxford University where he read English, Stephany is also a mentor at TechStars, a leading tech accelerator programme. Stephany and JustPark have been featured by ABC, CNBC, NPR, , , The BBC, Wired, and Bloomberg among many others.